It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
ALAN ALDAI’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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